Kangaroo Mother Care
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African continent has made the highest progress during MDG era on reducing under five child deaths. However, there are more than a million newborn babies dying every year . The largest numbers of these preventable deaths are due to prematurity related complications which can be managed effectively by Kangaroo Mother...
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For most women, sustained breastfeeding can be achievable against the backdrop of constant family, social and health system support, specifically through the institutionalized practice of skin to skin care (SSC) at birth. When efforts and resources are optimized within health facilities to provide technical support for mothers in the crucial...
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A ‘dead’ baby brought back to life — not with state-of-art technology, but a mother’s warm, loving hug. This could be straight out of a Bollywood film. But this heart-warming story is a fact. In 2010, Australian Katy Ogg gave birth to premature twins, Emily and Jamie, 14 weeks early....
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In this blog from The Gates Notes, Bill Gates discusses the importance of kangaroo mother care in the safety and health of newborns.
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“It would have been very painful and harmful if we had lost our firstborn,” Laurence Uwamahoro says as she breastfeeds her newborn son. Laurence lives in Murehe, a rural region of eastern Rwanda, with her husband, Jean d’Amour Nduwimana, and their newborn, Yvan. Jean d’Amour sits next to his wife...
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